Evaluating Research in Context

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11 May 2009

European consortium to measure impact of research on society

How to measure the impact of research on society, and how does society impact science? SIAMPI has received a €800,000 grant from the European Commission to develop assessment methods to answer these questions.
19 September 2008

Pilot study VU Amsterdam Law has started

The VU University Amsterdam needs a method to more accurately assess research at the Faculty of Law. This discipline, united in the Jurisprudence Disciplinary Consultative Body has already carried out a lot of work into ways of assessing the research more accurately. Following on from this, ERiC has now started a pilot to develop criteria and indicators which do justice to the broad objectives of the research.
13 August 2008

Pilot study University TU Delft - Architecture

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) needs methods to more accurately assess research from design-oriented disciplines. A pilot study was therefore started at the Faculty of Architecture. Research at this faculty is not only published in scientific journals. All too often these activities are scarcely appreciated by assessors despite being common practice within the discipline.
13 August 2008

Quality Assurance Committee (KNAW) calls for a broad assessment of research

KNAW's Quality Assurance Committee advises a fairer approach to assessing research. They emphasise that the non-academic activities of researchers should be properly considered in research assessments. Their vision is set out in the advisory report 'Quality assurance in science'
29 April 2008

Assessment of knowledge centres and electorates at universities of applied sciences

Over the last few years, Hogeschool Utrecht has gained experience in using Sci_Quest to evaluate lectorates. On 10 April 2008, Hogeschool Utrecht held a research congress about research at universities of applied sciences in an international perspective.
19 March 2008

Report National Seminar

The report on the national seminar of 12 June 2007 about measuring and revealing the social impact and relevance of scientific research is available.
10 November 2007

International experts call for establishing indicators for measuring social impact of research

65 experts on the social impact of research gathered in Amsterdam for ERiC’s international Expert meeting “Evaluation of productive interactions between science and society” on 9 November 2007.
31 July 2007

‘Wikipedia’ of contextual evaluation

This Quick Scan is work in progress, a first step to collect information about contextual evaluation of research, that is evaluation that regards research in a broad context and includes all relevant output and the interaction of researchers with their social environment.
27 July 2007

National seminar 12 June 2007

At the national seminar held on 12 June 2007, researchers, directors of research institutes, programme managers and policy makers debated how to measure and reveal the social impact and relevance of scientific research.
1 February 2007

Letter from the Minister for Education to the universities

Measuring and revealing the social impact of scientific research is an important theme in research and science policy. Recently COS, KNAW, NWO, VSNU and QANU have taken the initiative to encourage awareness of the social impact of scientific research and the development of methodologies in this area.